Jirdi flower
Dimensions: 435 x 515: Acrylic / Texture on Canvas
The Pilbara is a land of many Beautiful colours Its beauty blends into the mother earth and against the red,purple hills in the distance in time and season the yellow Wattles, Mulla and Sturt pea take its toll as the country comes alive with the wild flowers watered by the rain and heavy due during the night. Land and our country also tells a wonderful story about our ancestor’s they walk and lived on the land always gathering food such as fish from the river, hunting kangaroo’s, emu and tracking goanna’s also gathering bush fruits and medicine.
This is the Fortescue Mulla Mulla or ‘Gumbarli’ in Yindjibarndi language. The flower is a purplish colour. It’s not a bush medicine, just a flower that grows in the country, in lines along the roads and everywhere. In this painting, the seeds of the Mulla Mulla are all blowing out. Once the leaves and petals have fallen off, the seeds are blown all through the land to bring flowers again the next year.